935 k3 chassis blueprints

[futten]

i was wondering if there are any blueprints or alike or some kinda drawings of 935 K tube chassis or if they were just jigged up etc at a shop and made and never blue printed I'm a model builder and need as much info as i can get and as many pictures as i can i noticed some K pictures have still the standard front body structural steel
but don't know if these were full blooded K3`s

[javadog]

Which specific car are you trying to build? What team, what number, etc?

JR

[futten]

no specific team but possibly a car thats tube chassied

[javadog]

Well, You need to do a little research first and figure out what you want to build. A K3 was a car built by the Kremer brothers in Germany. Some were converted from existing factory-built 935s and others were built up from body shells bought from the factory. They were built in 1979 and 1980. They were not what I would call a tube framed car. The only real tube framed car up to that point was the factory 935-78. In 1981, Kremer built their version of that car, which they referred to as a K4. Other teams, like Reinhold Joest, also built tube framed cars at about the same time.

Keep in mind that most 935s were heavily modified throughout their lives and some of them sprouted tube subframes in the rear, to make engine access easier, although they had a braced, standard tub for the cockpit section. A 935 also had a tubular brace in the front trunk area, and many had roll cages tubing extended forward into the trunk, but that also was just additional reinforcement, not a true tube frame design.

This is a site that has some photos of some of the cars from that era, to get you started:

Porsche 935: The Cars Photo Gallery by Bernd Buschen at pbase.com

John Starkey has published a few books that would give you more history on individual cars.

JR

[RichardNew]

One irony of the 935 was that the American cars were faster than the German cars. The Swap Shop 935 is a good example of that.

Richard Newton